I'd like to add my thanks to the lot. This has driven me crazy for some time--in fact, I e-mailed you about it right after the war began. I thought you didn't reply because you either didn't agree or you were afraid that I was being a lazy copy editor (my address was @condenast.com, but I was in fact a lowly presentation designer with too many language usage opinions for my own good, and I'm no longer there).

Anyway, the closest I got by way of this topic being addressed in a public forum was Jon Stewart's commencement speech at William and Mary. The crack about the war, and how "terror isn't even a noun, so good luck with that" (quoting from memory). But terror is a noun, and I think he missed the terminology problem.

So thanks for nailing it. I can breathe a little easier every time I hear "War on Terror" on the news (roughly once every 3.6 minutes).